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Suspicious crashes
The PC keeps encountering a problem with "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services". It's happened four times in the last three hours and every time I've had to restart to get my broadband connection back.
The message comes up after about 10 mins logged on (I just sat on the other side of the room and watched it happen without my having touched the keyboard for 5 mins).
I'm only running Firefox and Notetab (under, I'mverysorry, Windows XP). I checked the Micros*ft site re this problem, and there's a patch, but it's not at all recent -- so what I'm suspicious about is the way it's suddenly started happening. Can't think of how it could be caused by having unplugged and moved the PC, then moved it back, and that's all that's changed since Before Problem.
Any ideas? Virus? Physical damage? Weird hardware thing? Mercury in retrograde? Absence of cat urine in carpet?
The message comes up after about 10 mins logged on (I just sat on the other side of the room and watched it happen without my having touched the keyboard for 5 mins).
I'm only running Firefox and Notetab (under, I'mverysorry, Windows XP). I checked the Micros*ft site re this problem, and there's a patch, but it's not at all recent -- so what I'm suspicious about is the way it's suddenly started happening. Can't think of how it could be caused by having unplugged and moved the PC, then moved it back, and that's all that's changed since Before Problem.
Any ideas? Virus? Physical damage? Weird hardware thing? Mercury in retrograde? Absence of cat urine in carpet?
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May see what I can do with this one when it's retrieved: meanwhile, a combination of K's laptop and werk PC will do me for most things. And really am quite tempted to switch to Linux, though OpenOffice's Word-substitute is a nasty thing. Mind you, I do have an installation CD for Word 97: may stick to that!
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Linux - that'll be Liam for tech support then ;-)
(miaow)
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Werk is an enthusiastically Linux site, so tech support should be available at the drop of a penguin. I've had very few problems with the desktop machine at werk in the last 8 months -- but then, I haven't been using it for fun stuff like web, multimedia etc.